Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
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Free Music Review: Spectacular
Hit: 5 Stars
what lupe does on this cd just isn't fair to the competition. he's got some tracks that follow the story of micheal young history from the cool, a cut from his last album, food and liquor. the rest of the tracks range from lu's observations on the darker side of america. his lyrics are even more powerful than the mixtapes and food and liquor. the beats are also a little different than the first album. some aren't beats you'd think someone would rap on. all in all this is my fav album of 07. lupe came out firing on all cylinders with this part concept album. i reccomend it to people who like there hip hop to have a message. that means i'm not talking about "crank dat" fans.Free Music Review: Dark and at Times Bitter: Magnificent
Hit: 5 Stars
Lupe Fiasco, an MC hailed as one of the greatest by casual listeners and scoffed at by some underground heads. The thing is, he's not trying to please any specific listener, creating music that's not quite mainstream yet not quite underground either. "The Cool" is an album displaying Lupe's frustration with the current state of hip-hop and record labels associated with it while also providing insight into a mythical man's (The Cool) life and ultimately his death. The album is brilliant, whether he is paying tribute to Chicago's rapid-fire style of rhyme in 'Go Go Gadget Flow', painting pictures with words in 'The Coolest', 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life', 'Intruder Alert', 'Hello/Goodbye', or 'The Die', or exploiting gun use by minors in 'Little Weapon'. In addition to these tracks, he responds to pleas to simplify his music in 'Dumb it Down' and comments on his own hype in 'Superstar'.
This album is definitely a refreshment to any casual fan and a banger to any underground head. Lupe puts together an absolute masterpiece with "The Cool."
Free Music Review: "The Cool" One of the Best Albums of 2007
Hit: 5 Stars
Im going to keep it short and simple. Lupe is the best MC out right now, and he makes great music with meaning and thought. He raised the bar since F&L and it shows on his new opus. Support great music like this, and if you do not like this album then you do not like music.
Favorite Tracks(all the tracks are great):
Hip-Hop Saved My Life
Free Chilly
Go Go Gadget Flow
Paris, Tokyo
Gold Watch
Streets On Fire
The Coolest
Put You On Game
Intruder Alert
Fighters
Go Baby
Free Music Review: Wow, I didnt think much until now
Hit: 5 Stars
This is my first Lupe CD, after hearing Dumb It Down I started to respect him, it was about time a black man started telling the truth about our culture and the repetition of our mistakes. And then Superstar, the hook was amazing and his flow is just cool as a beach breeze. I love how he uses singers who actually add to the song, most rap songs that feature singers are usually terrible concoctions of r&b and rap that were made too fast or at least sound like it. All of these ringtone rappers who have no depth dont even deserve to sell records, but it shows the intelligence of the public, this guy might really save hip hop be it with this album or his next few, considering that most established rappers have pretty much lost thier fire. This was a real suprise, Lupe's got an intelligent flow, calling him a nerd is ignorant of some people to say, admit it everyone he's different,which makes him unique. Buy the CD!!Free Music Review: Conscious-hip-hop's next hope loses hope.
Hit: 3 Stars
With his 2006 debut, this Chicago native was heralded as the savior who would snatch back hip-hop from evil ring-tone rappers and mean-mugging mooks. The conflicted rhymes and warm, jazzy beats elevated Lupe above his back-patting ?conscious-rap contemporaries.
"I ain't dumb down nothing," the brainy MC now says self-righteously, in dumbed-down grammar. His labyrinthine wordplay is intact (Jay-Z called Lupe a "genius writer" in Blender), but he has turned surly and depressive, replacing exuberance with an aloof nihilism and egotism: According to The Cool, if Lupe can't save hip-hop from itself, nobody can.
The CD is loosely tied together by a browbeating concept that condemns the glorification of Scarface-style violence and disposable pop-rap, but the moralism is as trite as a Tony Montana reference. "Streets on Fire" even decries mainstream hip-hop as a virus that could "kill the whole world."
There are breaks from the ?jeremiads. "Gold Watch" is an airy rundown of endearing eccentricities--"I am ?American mentally with Japanese tendencies and Parisian sensibilities," he claims while ?bigging-up Montblanc pens and green Now and Laters. The mutating, offbeat musical excursions--a little new wave here, a little arena rock there--liven up the CD. And on "Hi-Definition," Lupe offers a ?vulnerable ?and starry-eyed diary entry alongside Snoop Dogg, who completes the track's G-funky vibe. But Lupe quickly returns to his apocalyptic vision. "We just got one more to go," he says near the end of the LP, referring to his three-albums-only early-retirement plan. He already sounds defeated.